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You’re stuck inside but you’re not alone – it’s time for love. Here’s some timeless baby-making music to light your candles. Songs for winter foreplay under warm covers or just on the floor, mixed by Shanghai’s LOVE BANG crew with help from Pleasure Robot #8888. Look out for the X-rated sequel dropping on Feb 10th 2014.

Back from a quick trip to Chongqing out in West China. Wild city, that one. Saw a dog playing in a pile of electrical wire, climbed mountains, dodged thieves, watched a bloody brawl from an uncomfortably close distance, walked on sky bridges above tree canopies, got ignored by stone-faced locals, ate late-street BBQ on plates instead of skewers, met late-nite breakdance gangs in the streets, and got hotpot broth and all its numbing qualities in my eye.

Shout out to Mike at CQScene for all the help and for holding it down hard when the fracas erupted, everyone who came to the show at NUTS, DJ Doshy and JCC (so good!), Louie, Lost Unknown, Sunshine (a person*, not the actual sun), Gucci and MC One Con, topography, that noodle guy the first night..

* Odd English names like “Sunshine” make for easy email searching.

Yo how is a club gonna have a wi-fi AND a Serato SL3 box but no booth monitor for the DJ??

Said club also had a fake* costume-contest in the middle of my set. Very fashion. One girl was Marilyn, or maybe Lady Gaga..that lead to downloading “Diamonds Are A Girl’s Best Friend” on aforementioned wi-fi. Here’s that and some other songs with “Diamond” in their name.

been working on a new mixtape full of tracks from my “Take It Home” playlist. it’s leaning more toward contemporary sex music like The Dream, Jodeci, H-Town, etc., so I couldn’t really fit some of these classics in there.

would be a shame to not share them though. Minnie Ripperton god damn what an amazing voice, tragic that she died of breast cancer at just 31 years old…

Great mix for any time of day or night here by long-time Love Bang friend Ceezy. Born and raised in Shanghai, he’s put out more beats than anyone else i know of in this city of twenty million. His music is like Mario Kart Koopa Beach level x Nujabes + 60′s and 70′s flavor, and dude looks like he jumped straight out of an anime.

Ceezy’s mixtapes always sound like a vacation to a far-away land drenched with sun, cartoons, and MPC beats. His productions carry titles like “飞行的浴缸 (Flying bath in a cloudy day)” – check them out over at http://site.douban.com/site/classizy

Soul, hip hop, funk, and jazz floating in and out on this mix. One of the best MF Doom songs shows up too. As with all his mixes, you’re in for an adventure.

When he’s not making beats or remixing, he’s behind the counter at streetwear/record store/restaurant KIN and sometimes behind the decks at The Shelter for the White Noise, BEAT CONDUCTORZ, and Back To The Classics nights, plus various shows with Hit It, Otakrew, and other crews. He DJed for Das EFX once.

Catch him playing a long set from 9:30 – 12:30 on Friday, August 17th @ Dada Bar for Love Bang #20.

No tracklist yet. Will post in a few days. Enjoy.

Photo by T-Plus! He’s warming it up like kane for us next Saturday at Shelter.

…i don’t have internet at my house, so here’s a slightly delayed but still HUGE thank you // big up // shout out to everyone who came to dada on saturday. 我们阿姨爱你们!

and sorry to everyone who couldn’t get in. the spot was just too packed…没办法. we’re planning something in a slightly bigger off-venue for June, but gonna keep doing the monthly at Dada.

i left Dada around 11 to go to YYT to catch the homies Friend or Foe // Death To Ponies play (great set). when i came back it took me five minutes to get from the door to the DJ booth..insane.

great sets by DJ Maze, DJ Caution, and DJ Scene. I played on Serato for the first time (i usually just play CD and vinyl, no laptop). took me about thirty minutes to adjust but was all good after that.

i brought a big bag of treats, about half of which i handed out. the other half – ???? hope someone is enjoying all those gummi bears and sharks.

It’s almost that time again…another Love Bang party at Dada before we move to The Shelter for March (then back to Dada on April 7th). Thanks to all who checked out our latest mix – we’ve got another one coming sooner than you think.

We want to give away some free drank at this Saturday’s show, so we’re doing a caption contest a la The New Yorker. All you need to do is fill in the dialogue bubbles for the boy and the girl. Could be one word, one sentence, or a paragraph. Please no essays/extended discourse – we’re busy working on a mix.

You can leave your dialogue in the comments section on this page. Just say “Boy: ….. Girl: ……” or, you can send @热狼isHeatwolves on Sina Weibo.

First prize gets a bottle of Smirnoff vodka, second prize gets three bottles of beer. We’ll announce the winner on Friday.

We’re spinning love songs from all genres on Saturday, so expect some Motown, some hip hop, a little dubstep, house, and of course some slow-jams on the late-nite tip. Some surprises in store too, and a warm-up set by the mystical DjMrWhite!